High Cost of Shoes Indicts Prices Decline Expected
In Boston on Jan 12 a report to the National Shoe Retailers Association conference says rising leather costs from 60 cents to 1 a foot for Fall 1919 shoes and 80 cents to 1.26 for Spring 1920 drive higher prices. Dealers urge consumers to shine own shoes and note leather supply and labor costs as factors.
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Boston
Boston Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association
National Shoe Retailers’ Association
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Three Civil Courts In Session Here
Civil business in county courts moves quickly as three courts sit this week. In Superior Court Judge John J. Keeler and a jury hear the case of Margaret C. Fagan administratrix vs Connecticut Water for 10000 damages over Edward J. Fagan’s death from a trolley fall. Three other cases listed today, few likely to go to trial. Common Pleas judges John J. Walsh and John K.R. Booth hear x cases, some may be removed to proceed with trials.
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John J. Keeler
Margaret CC
Fagian
Connecticut Wo
Edward J. Fagan
Common Pleas
John J. Walsh
John KR. Booth
Bullard Co Moves Into New Plant
Bullard Co transfers its Broads Street plant to a new West End factory with completion no later than June 1. The move involves about 1,400 employees and aims to maintain uninterrupted production after acquiring the government plant, offering substantial expansion space.
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Bullard CO
Ransfer
Bullard Machina ‘Tool Company
Broadsstreet
Bouth
West Ind
E. Bullard
Hind
Dredging Harbor Work Begins for New Channel
Dredge No 1 of Bridgeport Dredge and Dock Co started work on a new harbor channel and anchorage basin planned to reach 18 feet mean depth under a government contract to remove 860 000 yards of material. Three digging ranges were set. first cut from a mount opposite the steel works. 160 000 yards of mud flats to be removed. spring progress expected amid steady weather.
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Bridgeport Dredge & Dock Company
Steel Works
Citizenship Applications Await Treaty Signing
Failure of the United States Senate to ratify the peace treaties with Germany and Austria-Hungary delays about 300 enemy aliens who have applied for citizenship. A naturalization court begins February 3 to handle matured applications with Judge John E. Keeler presiding.
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United States Senate
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Naturalization Court
John E. Keeler
Clubs Prepare to Wake by Barleycorn
Bridgeport clubs planned a celebration for the so called final death of John Barleycorn on January 18. Good Luck Dick Lombard dismissed whiskey in the city as made from wood alcohol and said very little cordial liquor exists. Nevertheless plans proceed despite the prediction.
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Bridgeport
John Barleycorn
Dick Lombard
Lombard
Inquest Continues Over Death of Mrs Horger
The inquest into the death of Mrs Julia Horger of Trumbull continued with Ray LaCroix and his wife among the witnesses. They testified they did not see the victim until she was directly in front of the automobile that struck her near Golden Till and Middle streets Friday night. John Shaw of Trumbull and Paul Dolyak of Sumnerfield Avenue, a Boy Scout, also testified they did not see the woman until after the collision but heard two screams. Coroner Phelan adjourned the inquest until 2:30 today to hear more witnesses.
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Ray LaCroix
Wilmot Avenue
Paul Dolyak
Summerfield Avenue
Phelan
City Bonds Sold Reflect Bridgeport Refunding Issue
Hincks Bros and Harris Forbes of New York bought Bridgeport's 568000 five percent refunding bonds with a premium of 454.40. The sale occurred in the mayor's office by the holding committee, the mayor, the city auditor and city treasurer.
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Hincks Bros. & Co
Harris-Forbes Co
New York
Bridgeport
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